Faces and Places with Materials Zone

What a fantastic 1st year this has been. Who would’ve thought it’ll be so much fun building a materials recommendation engine start-up with so much potential to help revolutionize science and change the world we live in.

It seems like many moons have risen and fallen yet in fact only a year has gone by since this all began. Materials zone has not only gained interest from government and industry but we’ve now validated the process we’ve coined as upcycling data. As quoted by David Suter “Recycle makes that something fit the same purpose, upcycling takes that something and makes it better – in our case better data.” Presentations in front of tech transfer officers and taking centre stage at MNE, our team have done a grand job, globetrotting the universe, educating the market on Upcycling.

The rise of fiber reinforced thermoplastics and thinner semiconductor wafers, it’s been a big year all round, with MZ being sure to scream and shout about our materials insights engine playing that key role in understanding big data. This, coupled with our commitment for 2019 to go about solving interoperability amongst labs – we look forward to sharing and releasing something more on this soon.

Aluminium materials once again is seeing a year-on-year increase in scientific research, mainly due to the overwhelming demands from OEM’s striving for super lightweighting opportunities.

After attending EMRS, Materials Zone are also noticing an inflection point for the graphene industry due to last years heavy requests in consumer electronics, under-the-hood roles in automotive, wind turbine coatings and energy storage.

Environmental considerations are on top of most people’s agendas with once again the automotive sectors electric vehicles and energy storage dominating this area.

This is all great news for Materials Zone as many material science innovation labs are looking to have an edge over others, our software grants them this.

In closing, new materials can now be discovered for hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars rather then the hundreds of millions of dollars it once cost. And with the vast use case and industry benefits ranging from faster 3d printing, more powerful semiconductors and longer lasting batteries, this industry is going through a transformative materials revolution.

From staff relationship building exercises where cooking lessons were on the menu through to meeting finance ministers, touring the east coast of US and demonstrating the potential of our product to academia and industry in Europe. Mission accomplished. 2019 KPI – Lets go!